A Benton City wine label maker continues to grow its company, portfolio and staff of women managers. Headed up by part owner and general manager, Katii Deaton, Columbia Label has built out its niche near Red Mountain, offering big city capabilities in the heart of Washington’s wine county.
A small shop in Pasco pumps out tens of thousands of jars of mustard annually, all made by hand with recipes created in the 1980s by Alice Jones, now 90.
The business is now run by Jones’ daughter, Juli Massingale, yet still bears her mom’s initials, AJ’s Edible Arts.
A boutique resale shop that will provide a future income stream to support clients of Domestic Violence Services of Benton & Franklin Counties is set to open in Kennewick, wrapping up a lofty project for the most recent class of Leadership Tri-Cities.
Roberta Chalaris-Davis and Marina de Albuquerque have an eye for design, and they’ve branched out from interior spaces to designing artisanal charcuterie boards and home décor at a storefront in Richland’s Parkway.
Set to open in June, just in time for the return of the Richland Farmers Market, ROMA...
There seems to be no coincidence between a family whose last name is “Sparks,” and the way they have set ablaze a full-time lifestyle of impacting the community.From churning out 200 cloth masks a day during the start of the pandemic to offering drive-thru food box pickups, the family’s most...
A new shop in Richland’s Parkway is filled with snarky gifts, fresh flowers and a few four-letter words for good measure.“I call it a sassy gift shop with a twist,” said shop owner Teresa VanDoorn. “Life is better with sarcasm.”The Teal Box opened in January as a storefront, replacing a...
A Kansas-based company plans to pick up where Union Pacific Railroad left off and complete an intermodal ramp in Wallula, bringing increased transportation capacity via rail.The project will open up routes to Northwest docks and as far east as Chicago and beyond through a lease and purchase agreement for the...
Overdose prevention could be viewed as the new CPR: the Benton-Franklin Health District wants everyone to be prepared and know how to help anyone at any time.The BFHD is actively marketing its “Carry a Second Chance” campaign in the hope people will equip themselves with naloxone, an emergency medication that...
Claude HafezPersonal trainer Claude Hafez believes most everyone can move and she won’t take “no” for an answer.“Regardless of age or injuries or limitations, everyone can move. You think you don’t want to move anymore, and you feel like the chair is calling you to just sit down, but I...
From small updates to large-scale projects, commercial or residential, Meier Architecture - Engineering has designed a wide range of structures across the Tri-Cities and beyond.In business since 1982, and recently celebrating its 40th year, the company has grown from a small engineering firm to a full-service host of professional engineers...
